Military Keynesianism on steroids reflects longstanding US policy. For the Pentagon it’s “long war.” I call it forever war, the human toll of no consequence– millions of casualties post-9/11 alone, human suffering immeasurable.

US policymakers support endless aggression, smashing one sovereign independent state after another, seeking unchallenged control over planet earth, its resources and populations.

The nation’s resources are heavily used for mass slaughter and destruction. Bipartisan policymakers support America’s permanent war economy, continuing endlessly.

Government financed and promoted warmaking comes at the expense of vital homeland needs gone begging.

The same agenda endured since WW II – from Korea to Southeast Asia to Central and Latin America, the Balkans, the Middle, East, Central Asia, North and Central Africa, its horn, and elsewhere.

State capitalism reflects the American way, a business partnership, running a war economy for greater power and wealth at the expense of a nation in decline, corrupted leadership, lost industrialization, crumbling infrastructure, and suffering millions on their own, uncared for, unwanted, ignored, and forgotten to assure steady funding for America’s wars, no matter the cost and enormous harm they cause.

Deindustrialization instead of reindustrializing the country goes on – millions of high-pay/good benefits jobs lost to low-wage countries.

Wealth is transferred from ordinary people to its privileged class. Physical and human capital are undermined. There’s increased vulnerability to hurricanes, widespread blazes, droughts, floods, and other natural disasters.

On the phony pretext of protecting national security, fundamental human and civil rights eroded – totalitarian control, tyranny and ruin replacing a free and open society.

US wars of aggression are unresolvable because bipartisan policymakers want them waged forever, beholden to interests supporting them.

Congress has appropriation power. Wars can’t be waged without majority support for funding them. Ongoing ones can end by cutting off the money spigot – never since WW II except after 10 years of Southeast Asia war.

After escalating it earlier, Nixon ended America’s longest war in modern times until Afghanistan and Yemen, both wars begun within weeks of each other post-9/11.

He threatened entrenched military/industrial/security and other interests, why he was marked for removal and had to go.

He survived and reinvented himself, traveled the world, wrote books, and was respected as an elder statesman.

Jack Kennedy was eliminated for wanting US forces out of Vietnam before December 1965, urging rapprochement with Soviet Russia and nuclear disarmament, wanting the CIA “splinter(ed) into a thousand pieces and scatter(ed) to the winds,” along with other responsible policy aims no top US officials support today – just the opposite, destructive over constructive ones.

Talk of ending US involvement in Yemen, along with cutting off support for Saudi Arabia, is hollow.

Weeks after heavy Saudi/UAE terror-bombing began in March 2015, massacring civilians, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif submitted a four-point workable plan for ending the war to UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon – an imperial tool subservient to Washington like his predecessor and successor.

“They have also indiscriminately targeted residential areas, including refugee camps, killing and injuring innocent civilians, in particular women and children.”

He sounded the alarm about a “humanitarian crisis (back then) approaching catastrophic dimensions.”

He called the US launched, orchestrated, supported war “one of the most barbaric” in our time, including use of “foreign-backed terrorists.”

He called it essential for the world community to unite for ending the ongoing horrors – continuing over three-and-a-half years after he raised the issue, stressing what’s clear to combatants, the UN and major powers.

There’s no military solution to what’s going on. His four-point conflict resolution is as relevant now as earlier, calling for the following:

“1. Ceasefire and an immediate end to all foreign military attacks;

2. Unimpeded urgent humanitarian and medical assistance to the people of Yemen;

3. Resumption of Yemeni-led and Yemeni-owned national dialogue, with the participation of the representatives of all political parties and social groups; (and)

Stephen Lendman was born in 1934 in Boston, MA. In 1956, he received a BA from Harvard University. Two years of US Army service followed, then an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. After working seven years as a marketing research analyst, he joined the Lendman Group family business in 1967. He remained there until retiring at year end 1999. Writing on major world and national issues began in summer 2005. In early 2007, radio hosting followed. Lendman now hosts the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network three times weekly. Distinguished guests are featured. Listen live or archived. Major world and national issues are discussed. Lendman is a 2008 Project Censored winner and 2011 Mexican Journalists Club international journalism award recipient.

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Stephen Lendman was born in 1934 in Boston, MA. In 1956, he received a BA from Harvard University. Two years of US Army service followed, then an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. After working seven years as a marketing research analyst, he joined the Lendman Group family business in 1967.